Top 100 Marsden Quotes
#1. What are you?" Lady Marsden asked, not bothering to hide her surprise. Obviously the lady was not accustomed to being caught snooping, let alone shut down twice.
"I have no idea,
Kady Cross
#2. Excuse me, your attention please."
He waited until the whole floor had stopped what it was doing and turned to face him. For a split second his impulse control kicked in, but by then his mouth was fully engaged.
"For the record, Claire Marsden and I are not having sex.
Sarah Mayberry
#3. I shouldn't tell you about it," Daisy railed, pacing back and forth in the Marsden parlor later that evening. "In your condition you shouldn't be distressed. But I can't keep it to myself or I will explode, which you would probably find infinitely more distressing.
Lisa Kleypas
#4. There is really more hope in turkey production for the beginner who starts out by informing himself thoroughly and uses sound judgment in developing his turkey project than for the turkey raiser with years of experience and indifferent success." - From MARSDEN AND MARTIN'S TURKEY MANAGEMENT, 1945
Don Schrider
#5. Forgive me, Cassie, but Jonas Marsden is hardly an example of well-adjusted behavior!
Karen Chance
#6. What happened?" Lillian asked as Daisy walked into the Marsden parlor. She was reclining on the settee with a periodical. "You look as if you've been run over by a carriage."
"I had an encounter with an ill-mannered pig, actually.
Lisa Kleypas
#7. Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not.
John Marsden
#8. Time spent in reconnaissance is seldom wasted.
John Marsden
#9. I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre.
Jason Marsden
#10. We're all so curiously alone, but it's important to keep making signals through the glass
John Marsden
#11. The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world
it is like operetta in prose
all so flowery and heavenlike.
Marsden Hartley
#12. You get to that age where you're watching a lot of television, and who doesn't want to be on television?
Jason Marsden
#13. My pen.' Funny, I wrote that without noticing. 'The torch', 'the paper', but 'my pen'. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It's about the most important thing I own.
John Marsden
#14. If you really want a humanized birth, the best thing you can do is stay the hell out of the hospital.
Marsden Wagner
#15. Dying's a fearful popular activity these days so we often double 'em up.
John Marsden
#16. My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.
Marsden Hartley
#17. I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.
John Marsden
#18. Oh Ellie, doesn't it make your mouth water?"
"It makes me water all right," I said crudely. "But not from my mouth.
John Marsden
#19. Go to hell," Sebastian muttered. "No doubt that was what you came to tell me tonight. If so, you're about a month too late."
"That was my intention," Westcliff admitted. "Now, however, I've decided to stay and have a snifter of brandy while you tell me what in God's name you're doing.
Lisa Kleypas
#20. Heights don't bother me ... It's falling and cracking my skull that freaks me out.
Jason Marsden
#21. Business is all about solving people's problems - at a profit.
Paul Marsden
#22. The places we visited were always richer and always more intricate than one could imagine. I loved to find out about the world, the good and the bad, in this way. For me, observing things with my own eyes was the only way. My wanderlust was also a wonderlust.
Luke F.D. Marsden
#23. There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or improves the outcome for the baby.
Marsden Wagner
#25. Do you think Lee's all right?'
'I'm praying my ass off.'
At that moment came the happiest sight I'd ever seen. A thin hand appeared out of the shovel, made a V sign or a peace sign-it was hard to tell in the dimness-and disappeared again.
John Marsden
#26. We prepared to go ashore to publish for the first time in New Zealand the glad tidings of the gospel.
Samuel Marsden
#27. The only true test of friendship is the time your friend spends on you.
John Marsden
#28. Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison
John Marsden
#29. He carried Hell with him, as we all did, like a little load on our backs that we hardly noticed most of the time, or like a huge great hump of suffering that bent us over with its weight.
John Marsden
#30. Sometimes I got worried that my memory was falling apart.
John Marsden
#31. We kill all the caterpillars, then complain there are no butterflies.
John Marsden
#32. I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.
Marsden Hartley
#33. If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.
John Marsden
#34. I've always loved watches my whole life. When I was growing up, I always thought of having a great watch as that next step - of making it, of a rite of passage.
James Marsden
#35. Cynicism is like gastro: it goes through your whole system and makes you shitty.
John Marsden
#36. If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.
George Marsden
#37. Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.
John Marsden
#38. It's the usual Socialist fiscal math of 1 + 1 = You're paying, so who cares.
Rachel Marsden
#39. Silence, sometimes my fortress, always my prison.
John Marsden
#40. Civilization is not necessary before Christianity; do both together if you will, but you will find civilization follow Christianity more easily than Christianity follow civilization.
Samuel Marsden
#41. I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.
Jason Marsden
#43. The world was quickly forgetting us. And there was little news to report.
John Marsden
#44. He called me whore, slut, bitch ... all the beautiful ugly words that secretly thrilled me.
Sommer Marsden
#45. I felt that my life was permanently damaged, that I could never be normal again, that the rest of my life would just be a shell.
John Marsden
#46. I live in the light,
But carry my dark with me.
John Marsden
#47. Society remains unflagging in its almost pathological pursuit of material self-interest.
William Marsden
#48. The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.
Marsden Hartley
#49. A few people would suffer, but a lot of people would be better off.'
'It's just not right,' said Kevin stubbornly.
'Maybe not. But neither's your way of looking at it. There doesn't have to be a right side and a wrong side. both sides can be right, or both sides can be wrong ...
John Marsden
#50. The Bible just said 'Thou shalt not kill', then told hundreds of stories of people killing each other and becoming heroes, like David with Goliath.
John Marsden
#51. There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.
John Marsden
#52. If you have blank spots instead of stories for part of your life, then that would be a pretty serious thing I think.
John Marsden
#53. The human eye doesn't look above its own height.
John Marsden
#54. I don't want them hanging a double murder on me. It wouldn't look good on my school record.
John Marsden
#55. This is the most complicated relationship since Romeo and Juliet," she complained. "You're
both hopeless. I mean, what is the big problem? You love him. He adores you. You get together and live happily ever after. Any
questions? No, of course not. That'll be ten dollars, thank you.
John Marsden
#56. True force makes no terms with any right, not even with that of God;
Victor E. Marsden
#57. You can only write about what you don't know, and find out about it in the writing.
Jessamyn West
#59. I want to direct, write, produce ... y'know, I love the entertainment industry.
Jason Marsden
#60. Well, I've learnt this much: it doesn't matter
what it costs, it's worth paying the price. You can't live cheap
and you can't live for nothing. Pay the price and be proud you've
paid it, that's what I reckon.
John Marsden
#61. It's about balance. Do a movie that's good for your career, then do a one that gets good box office.
James Marsden
#62. I guess you can't live at full-on intensity forever. Lying on the bed of my cell in the dark, trembling, waiting for the soldiers to come in and shoot me - you just can't keep doing that. There's something in the human spirit that won't let you live that way.
John Marsden
#63. Instead of blaming us, find your true enemy. And, where the offence is, there let the great axe fall.
John Marsden
#64. Name three types of olives."
"Olives! I wouldn't know one type!"
"Well, there are three. You can get green ones, you can get black ones, or you can get stuffed.
John Marsden
#65. A beggar who goes fishing may use a worm which has feasted on a king as his bait. And the fisherman may eat the fish caught with that bait. What does this tells us? Well, it tells us that a king may progress through the guts of a pauper.
John Marsden
#66. Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.
Marsden Wagner
#67. In the history of mankind, the fine art of killing one another in a civilized and uniformed manner has been elusive.
Richard Marsden
#68. I have always weirdly seen myself as more of a character actor. I have never been suave. I could never see myself playing James Bond. I suppose I could fake it, but I am certainly not James Bond in real life.
James Marsden
#69. One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.
Marsden Wagner
#70. I collect action figures, mostly. I have a Batman room, with just Batman stuff, and I have a Disney collection.
Jason Marsden
#71. A farm is just an accumulation of stories really. Same with people ...
"A farmer's footsteps are the best fertiliser," Dad used to say, which just means that the more you walk around your place the better everything seems to grow and flourish.
John Marsden
#72. If you're lucky enough to pick what you do, that's the greatest career you can have. Ultimately, that's my goal: to have choices.
James Marsden
#73. The total number of pregnancies in which powerful and dangerous drugs are used is 60 percent, or nearly two-thirds of all births. It is rediculous to think that two-thirds of American women have such lousy uteruses that they must be whipped into shape with drugs in order to have babies.
Marsden Wagner
#74. Remember the plan?" Hunter asked as they drew closer to their target.
Kristen looked at him sceptically. "'Keep quiet and don't get seen' is not a very professional plan. Did you have anything else to add?
K.S. Marsden
#75. We weren't creatures from another planet. We were creatures from Hell.
John Marsden
#76. To me, the more bizarre the character, the more I'm attracted to it.
James Marsden
#77. It's good to keep changing your mind. It shows you're thinking. I'll only stop changing my mind when I'm dead. And maybe not even then.
John Marsden
#78. We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.
John Marsden
#79. When you're making a film, it's a very technical process. You do things over and over again, and you have to hit your marks and your light and all that stuff.
James Marsden
#80. I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.
John Marsden
#81. When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.
John Marsden
#85. When I was younger - up until I was 19 years old and in college - I was surrounded with people in high school who felt like they knew what they wanted to do with their lives, and that was intimidating to me because I didn't.
James Marsden
#86. I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.
Marsden Hartley
#87. A lot of guys I know are into this whole scarf trend. Not my thing. I prefer to update and personalize my style with the smaller things, like a pocket square or, again, with the shoes. All in the details.
James Marsden
#88. I was with my wife for five years before we got married, so we've been together since I was 22.
James Marsden
#89. And I realized more and more that the Armenian story was not so much one of massacre and persecution, as survival.
Philip Marsden
#90. Nonbelievers may hear all the notes of science, but without a theistic context and perspective they will not hear the song.
George Marsden
#91. I guess our fate is up to us now. And we've
been there before, of course. There's something quite comforting
about it in a strange way. We've learnt a few things. We know we've
got a few things going for us. A bit of imagination, a bit of guts
sometimes, a bit of spark.
John Marsden
#92. There was a time - and I used to get made fun of a lot - that all I collected was soundtracks.
Jason Marsden
#95. Whatever yerz're lookin' for, I hope yerz find it. Yerz moight've never lost it!
Luke F.D. Marsden
#96. It's funny about a face, how big a difference it makes. I mean, one day you look in th mirror and you think, yeah, that's me, that's my face. And then another day ... you think, that's not me, that's not my face. So am I my face? I mean is that all I am?
John Marsden
#97. The more ridiculous the character is, the more sincerity you have to bring to it.
James Marsden
#98. If I have to do battle with you a thousand times to prove my point, I'll do it.'
The queen unwisely asked, 'But to prove what point, my dear Hamlet?'
'That I loved Ophelia! Fifty thousand brothers, with all the love they can summon, would not equal my love for here. Ophelia, Ophelia.
John Marsden
#99. Voice-acting, on the fun meter, is off the scale. You show up, you don't have to be all primped up, or dressed up. And you get to work with some amazing people, and goof off for four hours.
Jason Marsden
#100. Oh, Homer! You don't have to play dumb anymore! You're not at school now.
John Marsden
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